Max Preview Faces – Specifies the maximum number of faces to display for the preview. This method is slightly slower than Simplify Clustering, but generates a more precise preview mesh. Simplify Combined – A two-stage algorithm. Simplify Edge Collapse – Simplifies the mesh by collapsing edges into vertices. This method is fast and generates a fairly precise preview mesh, but does not preserve fine details. Simplify Clustering – Simplifies the mesh using vertex clustering. This is the fastest method but does not produce a connected mesh. Simplification Type – Specifies the simplification algorithm to use when generating preview geometry.įace Sampling – Displays randomly picked faces from the original mesh for the preview. Velocity Range – Specifies the range for which velocity information is exported. If you are not going to need motion blur it makes sense to disable this option. However, exporting this extra information takes longer. This makes it possible to add motion blur to the final animation. World Transform – Each object has its world transform information baked.Įxport Velocity – When enabled, exports velocity information for the moving objects. None – Transformation information is not baked. It specifies if the transformation of each object should be baked into the vertex positions in the resulting. Transform – This option is for exporting objects in separate files. Use Last As Preview – When enabled, the last mesh that was selected using Shift + click is used as a preview mesh for the proxy. Note that you can use this option even with a single object, which causes the object's pivot to be preserved in the exported. Unless the World Transform option is enabled, the transformation of an object is not included in its mesh file, and the corresponding proxy must have the same transformation as the original object if it is to appear in the same place. The name of each file is derived from the name of the corresponding Houdini node. Save Hidden and Templated objects – When enabled, includes geometry that is not visible or used for a template.Įxport Each Selected Object In Separate File – Creates a different file for each selected object. Objects – Specifies objects to be exported. Root Object – Specifies a root object to export. SOP Path – Specifies the geometry node to export. vrmesh files.Ĭreate Intermediate Dirs – When enabled, intermediate directories are created during the export process. Overwrite Existing File(s) – When enabled, V-Ray automatically overwrites any existing. Geometry File – Specifies the export file name and location. Render With Take – Renders using the settings from a specified take. Start/End/Inc – Specifies the range of frames to render (start frame, end frame, and increment). Render Frame Range Only (Strict) – Only renders the frames in the specified range set below. Render Frame Range – Exports frames from the specified range set below as well as other frames if they are referenced by in-range frames. Render Current Frame – Exports the current frame. Valid Frame Range – Specifies the frame(s) to export. Render to Disk – Starts the export process.Ĭontrols. – Launches the Houdini Render Control window. Therefore, if you plan on doing modifications to the mesh, you should keep it in a Maya file (which may be different from the file that gets rendered in the end).

vrmesh file (this can be done in principle, but is currently not supported). There is no way to recover the original mesh from a. You can't change the mesh, or animate it in any way other than animating the position/orientation of the proxy object. No further modifications to the mesh are expected.

It is important to note that the mesh is in a 'ready to render' format. vrmesh file format is available in the V-Ray SDK documentation. The file also contains a simplified version of the mesh used for preview purposes in the viewports. In addition, the mesh is preprocessed and subdivided into chunks for easier access. In short, everything that is needed to render the mesh is included in the file. This file contains all geometric information for a mesh such as vertices and face topology as well as texture channels, face material IDs, smoothing groups, and normals. Afterwards, they can be imported back into a scene using a V-Ray Proxy Import. The V-Ray Proxy ROP node allows you to export. This page provides information on the V-Ray Proxy ROP (rop_vrayproxy) node.

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